Burt Neuborne, one of the nation's leading civil liberties lawyers, is the author of "Madison's Music: On Reading the First Amendment," an ode to the First Amendment's "narrative of democracy." The book examines how a fragmented interpretation of the First Amendment leads to gerrymandered districts, a government run by the wealthy, and the disenfranchisement of many of our citizens.

Neuborne, who was the national legal director of the ACLU during the Reagan presidency and has argued many cases before the Supreme Court, is the Inez Milholland Professor of Civil Liberties and the founding legal director of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School. He is the author of three scholarly books and numerous articles and is a contributor to The Nation and other publications. Neuborne played Jerry Falwell's lawyer in Milos Forman's "The People v. Larry Flynt" and was the Court TV commentator for the trial of O.J. Simpson. He lives in New York.

Host and Producer of Rag Radio: Thorne Dreyer; Engineer and Co-Producer: Tracey Schulz; Photographer: Roger Baker. Rag Radio (www.theragblog.com/rag-radio/) is produced in the studios of KOOP 91.7-FM, an all-volunteer, cooperatively-run community radio station in Austin, Texas, in association with The Rag Blog (TheRagBlog.com) and the New Journalism Project, a Texas 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The show is broadcast (and streamed) live Fridays, 2-3 p.m. (Central) on KOOP (www.koop.org/listen-now), and is rebroadcast and streamed on WFTE-FM in Mt. Cobb and Scranton, PA., Sundays at 10 a.m. (Eastern time) and on Houston Pacifica's KPFT HD-3 90.1 on Wednesdays at 1 p.m. (Central). Contact: ragradio@koop.org. Running time: 55:53.

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